Andy Waite
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Thinking of my late father today, who was Chairman of the EU's Socrates programme, a self defined euromaniac, esteemed political scientist and former Vice Chancellor, who would be extremely proud and delighted about today's news on Erasmus+
This one's for you, Dad x
This one's for you, Dad x
December 17, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Thinking of my late father today, who was Chairman of the EU's Socrates programme, a self defined euromaniac, esteemed political scientist and former Vice Chancellor, who would be extremely proud and delighted about today's news on Erasmus+
This one's for you, Dad x
This one's for you, Dad x
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There are those who proudly define their lives by what they hate and those that define their fight with love - I will remain in the latter group - I am sad that so many prefer to define themselves by hate , but encouraged by all those who use love as their motivation
December 15, 2025 at 11:19 PM
There are those who proudly define their lives by what they hate and those that define their fight with love - I will remain in the latter group - I am sad that so many prefer to define themselves by hate , but encouraged by all those who use love as their motivation
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Typical CEO In Chumplandia......
December 5, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Typical CEO In Chumplandia......
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2 in 3 of Nigel Farage’s current and former partners do not speak English as their first language.
December 3, 2025 at 11:03 PM
2 in 3 of Nigel Farage’s current and former partners do not speak English as their first language.
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Nothing will change in the UK until the press is dealt with
Nothing will change in the UK until the press is dealt with
Nothing will change in the UK until the press is dealt with
Nothing will change in the UK until the press is dealt with
Nothing will change in the UK until the press is dealt with
Nothing will change in the UK until the press is dealt with
Nothing will change in the UK until the press is dealt with
Nothing will change in the UK until the press is dealt with
Nothing will change in the UK until the press is dealt with
December 1, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Nothing will change in the UK until the press is dealt with
Nothing will change in the UK until the press is dealt with
Nothing will change in the UK until the press is dealt with
Nothing will change in the UK until the press is dealt with
Nothing will change in the UK until the press is dealt with
Nothing will change in the UK until the press is dealt with
Nothing will change in the UK until the press is dealt with
Nothing will change in the UK until the press is dealt with
Nothing will change in the UK until the press is dealt with
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👏🏽"We must all now confront the reality that the Brexit deal significantly hurt our economy. We have to keep reducing frictions. We have to keep moving towards a closer relationship with the EU. And we have to be grown up about it. To accept that it will require trade-offs."👏🏽
Music to my ears. ~AA
Music to my ears. ~AA
December 1, 2025 at 12:55 PM
👏🏽"We must all now confront the reality that the Brexit deal significantly hurt our economy. We have to keep reducing frictions. We have to keep moving towards a closer relationship with the EU. And we have to be grown up about it. To accept that it will require trade-offs."👏🏽
Music to my ears. ~AA
Music to my ears. ~AA
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I love being in my late 30s so much. I love not giving a shit about being famous or successful anymore. I love prioritizing being comfortable, and being around people who love me.
Could do without the aching joints and looming perimenopause, but everything else? Golden.
Could do without the aching joints and looming perimenopause, but everything else? Golden.
November 30, 2025 at 9:23 PM
I love being in my late 30s so much. I love not giving a shit about being famous or successful anymore. I love prioritizing being comfortable, and being around people who love me.
Could do without the aching joints and looming perimenopause, but everything else? Golden.
Could do without the aching joints and looming perimenopause, but everything else? Golden.
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Radio 6 is a tribute to all that is best at the BBC. It is inform, educate and entertain in musical form: Utter loveliness. And then they periodically allow the news department to mutilate it with these context-free anti-asylum bulletins, reminding you of all that's worst about the BBC.
Radcliffe and Maconie on BBC 6 music is one of my favourite things
Having it interrupted by breathless news bulletin telling me ‘government has banned taxis for asylum seekers’ *really isn’t*
New lines like ‘Home Office spent £1k over weekend on taxis’ would struggle to make a local newspaper
Having it interrupted by breathless news bulletin telling me ‘government has banned taxis for asylum seekers’ *really isn’t*
New lines like ‘Home Office spent £1k over weekend on taxis’ would struggle to make a local newspaper
November 29, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Radio 6 is a tribute to all that is best at the BBC. It is inform, educate and entertain in musical form: Utter loveliness. And then they periodically allow the news department to mutilate it with these context-free anti-asylum bulletins, reminding you of all that's worst about the BBC.
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The war will end when Russia stops fighting. Therefore, pressure has to be put on Russia, so that they stop believing that they will win. Why is that so hard to understand?
November 27, 2025 at 1:49 AM
The war will end when Russia stops fighting. Therefore, pressure has to be put on Russia, so that they stop believing that they will win. Why is that so hard to understand?
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I will not be buying any World Cup tickets or merchandise due to FIFA’s collaboration with the Trump regime.
Gianni Infantino has a dictator fetish. It’s grotesque.
Gianni Infantino has a dictator fetish. It’s grotesque.
Fifa agrees World Cup matches can be moved at Trump’s request
The president has been warning host cities under Democratic control that he will call on Fifa’s president to switch venues if he deems there is a problem
www.thetimes.com
November 18, 2025 at 1:06 PM
I will not be buying any World Cup tickets or merchandise due to FIFA’s collaboration with the Trump regime.
Gianni Infantino has a dictator fetish. It’s grotesque.
Gianni Infantino has a dictator fetish. It’s grotesque.
watching the UK (and by extension the world) is slowest and most prifound car crash imaginable
November 17, 2025 at 8:10 AM
watching the UK (and by extension the world) is slowest and most prifound car crash imaginable
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There were 93 homicides in London last year: population 9 million
In New York - population 8.5 million - there were
391.
London's homicide figure is 6 times lower than LA, 9 times lower than Miami, 17 times lower than Chicago.
And it's falling year on year despite the population increasing
In New York - population 8.5 million - there were
391.
London's homicide figure is 6 times lower than LA, 9 times lower than Miami, 17 times lower than Chicago.
And it's falling year on year despite the population increasing
November 16, 2025 at 5:28 PM
There were 93 homicides in London last year: population 9 million
In New York - population 8.5 million - there were
391.
London's homicide figure is 6 times lower than LA, 9 times lower than Miami, 17 times lower than Chicago.
And it's falling year on year despite the population increasing
In New York - population 8.5 million - there were
391.
London's homicide figure is 6 times lower than LA, 9 times lower than Miami, 17 times lower than Chicago.
And it's falling year on year despite the population increasing
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Almost without exception, such 'patriots' loathe everything that actually makes Britain a great country and long for a smaller country, with narrower horizons, and a meaner future, based on a version of the past that never existed.
November 16, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Almost without exception, such 'patriots' loathe everything that actually makes Britain a great country and long for a smaller country, with narrower horizons, and a meaner future, based on a version of the past that never existed.
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No, I'd say it's racists and those pandering to them.
November 15, 2025 at 9:58 PM
No, I'd say it's racists and those pandering to them.
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Reading about the rapid collapse of Eastern European governments in 1989 as completely rotten and corrupt leaderships disintegrated when people realised fear was all that was holding them up. Apropos of nothing.
November 12, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Reading about the rapid collapse of Eastern European governments in 1989 as completely rotten and corrupt leaderships disintegrated when people realised fear was all that was holding them up. Apropos of nothing.
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Fierce and fascinating News Agents episode on the BBC crisis. Man alive they hate Robbie Gibb
November 10, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Fierce and fascinating News Agents episode on the BBC crisis. Man alive they hate Robbie Gibb
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JUST RAISE TAXES. MAKE AN ARGUMENT FOR SOLIDARITY AND SHARED SACRIFICE FOR ONCE
I’m with Vince.
And 2p on income tax plus 2p off NICS to raise £6bn feels like being hung for half a lamb.
www.ft.com/content/9e56...
And 2p on income tax plus 2p off NICS to raise £6bn feels like being hung for half a lamb.
www.ft.com/content/9e56...
November 8, 2025 at 1:41 PM
JUST RAISE TAXES. MAKE AN ARGUMENT FOR SOLIDARITY AND SHARED SACRIFICE FOR ONCE
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The AWS outage is a victim of big tech's own success. Cloud providers have become so dependable that we assume they can't go down - with catastrophic consequences for an overly-centralised web. Read more in my latest for @fastcompany.com www.fastcompany.com/91425078/aws...
The AWS outage reveals the web’s massive centralization problem
What happens when key infrastructure providers are too good at their jobs? Everyone relies on them—with catastrophic consequences when they fail.
www.fastcompany.com
October 20, 2025 at 2:05 PM
The AWS outage is a victim of big tech's own success. Cloud providers have become so dependable that we assume they can't go down - with catastrophic consequences for an overly-centralised web. Read more in my latest for @fastcompany.com www.fastcompany.com/91425078/aws...
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aw, shit
October 11, 2025 at 9:25 PM
aw, shit
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Amazing bit of 2019 footage this.
Frei doing a great job of trying to hold Farage to account as he and Nathan Gill go walkabout.
And I suspect Farage will come to regret his quip at the end about Russians if it does the rounds again.
Frei doing a great job of trying to hold Farage to account as he and Nathan Gill go walkabout.
And I suspect Farage will come to regret his quip at the end about Russians if it does the rounds again.
Nathan’s mate Nigel sure did seem to want to brush it all away when questioned by Matt Frei back in 2019.
September 29, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Amazing bit of 2019 footage this.
Frei doing a great job of trying to hold Farage to account as he and Nathan Gill go walkabout.
And I suspect Farage will come to regret his quip at the end about Russians if it does the rounds again.
Frei doing a great job of trying to hold Farage to account as he and Nathan Gill go walkabout.
And I suspect Farage will come to regret his quip at the end about Russians if it does the rounds again.
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I think HRC's vilified "deplorables" speech, though politically unwise, was undeniably true. Polls show this. At least half the people backing the populist right are hardcore bigots and can never be reached by a left-leaning party. But some of the other half can be peeled away. Where's the lie?
September 28, 2025 at 4:47 PM
I think HRC's vilified "deplorables" speech, though politically unwise, was undeniably true. Polls show this. At least half the people backing the populist right are hardcore bigots and can never be reached by a left-leaning party. But some of the other half can be peeled away. Where's the lie?
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UK cyber security is not fit for purpose - public infrastructure, including water, is owned by foreign firms, even foreign states, whose cyber security we cannot guarantee.
But, hey, says Starmer (ie: Blair) let’s roll out digital IDs, which we all know will be hackable and can never be made safe.
But, hey, says Starmer (ie: Blair) let’s roll out digital IDs, which we all know will be hackable and can never be made safe.
UK government will underwrite £1.5bn loan guarantee to Jaguar Land Rover after cyber-attack
UK government will underwrite £1.5bn loan guarantee to Jaguar Land Rover after cyber-attack
Britain’s largest automotive employer plans to restart engine manufacturing in early October, report says
The government has said it will underwrite a £1.5bn loan guarantee to Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) as the car maker battles the consequences of a recent cyber-attack.
JLR had to suspend production at its UK factories for several weeks after being targeted by hackers with the shutdown expected to last until at least 1 October. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
September 28, 2025 at 8:51 AM
UK cyber security is not fit for purpose - public infrastructure, including water, is owned by foreign firms, even foreign states, whose cyber security we cannot guarantee.
But, hey, says Starmer (ie: Blair) let’s roll out digital IDs, which we all know will be hackable and can never be made safe.
But, hey, says Starmer (ie: Blair) let’s roll out digital IDs, which we all know will be hackable and can never be made safe.
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Really interesting section on intel and briefings coming out of the White House on Gaza and Ukraine.
The progressive argument for ID cards - go ahead and shout at me now.
Plus we share our first memories of travel abroad. What are yours?
The progressive argument for ID cards - go ahead and shout at me now.
Plus we share our first memories of travel abroad. What are yours?
🆕 Sunday School: Identity Politics 🪪
🌹 Digital ID & Labour Conference
🇺🇸 White House pivots on Ukraine & Gaza
🎒Why Youth Mobility matters
@sturdyalex.bsky.social & @mrkennycampbell.bsky.social are your Sunday treat.
🍊 open.spotify.com/episode/0BRv...
🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/q...
🌹 Digital ID & Labour Conference
🇺🇸 White House pivots on Ukraine & Gaza
🎒Why Youth Mobility matters
@sturdyalex.bsky.social & @mrkennycampbell.bsky.social are your Sunday treat.
🍊 open.spotify.com/episode/0BRv...
🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/q...
Sunday School: Identity Politics
Podcast Episode · Quiet Riot · 28/09/2025 · 58m
podcasts.apple.com
September 28, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Really interesting section on intel and briefings coming out of the White House on Gaza and Ukraine.
The progressive argument for ID cards - go ahead and shout at me now.
Plus we share our first memories of travel abroad. What are yours?
The progressive argument for ID cards - go ahead and shout at me now.
Plus we share our first memories of travel abroad. What are yours?